? Urgent Search! Sp Unit Staff RN - Hospital (CVOR)
Company: Kaiser
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: June 30, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Summary: As the leader of the health care
team, provides professional nursing care, utilizing the nursing
process in accordance with established standards of care, policies,
and procedures. Demonstrates performance consistent with the
Medical Center Vision, Mission, and Strategic Plan of the
organization. Remains flexible to changing systems; is expected to
demonstrate quality and effectiveness in work habits and clinical
practice; and treats co-workers, patients, families, and all
members of the health care team with dignity and respect. Essential
Responsibilities: Essential Duties: /t - The Registered Nurse
demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills,
competencies, and behaviors: Leadership: /t - Upholds Kaiser
Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of
Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws. /t
- Serves as a leader of the health care team; delegates tasks
appropriately, and /t - demonstrates appropriate accountability. /t
- Understands own and team members scope of practice and escalates
issues as appropriate. /t - Demonstrates professional, supportive
behavior. /t - Champions new ideas. /t - Leads and directs others
through the change process. /t - Utilizes communication strategies
including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in
intended outcomes. /t - Participates in problem identification and
resolution. /t - Mentors, orients, and coaches others in unit
specific operations and patient care activities. /t - Shares
responsibility and authority with subordinates and holds him/her
accountable for performance. /t - Demonstrates ability to problem
solve with other departments in order to assist member problem
resolution. /t - Prioritizes, delegates, and supervises work
assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care
activities. /t - Complies with regulatory requirements, policies,
procedures, and standards of practice. Nursing Process: /t -
Develops and/or contributes to the individualized plan of care that
reflects assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the
outcomes of that plan. /t - Ensures plan shows multidisciplinary
planning, consultation, and education. /t - Ensures plan is
reflective of admission or outpatient database, on-going findings,
age appropriate care, cultural specific needs, and appropriate
acuity. /t - Ensures plan is discussed with patient,
family/significant others, and completed in a timely manner. /t -
Monitors the patients progress based on the plan. /t - Revises plan
on ongoing basis based on patient condition and evaluation of
progress. /t - Ensures care meets standards of practice. /t -
Ensures effective development and completion of discharge plan
including discharge barriers and patient/family education. /t -
Ensures that patient clearly understands discharge instructions. /t
- In outpatient, identify barriers and needs for patient/family
education that will facilitate the outpatient medical management
plan. /t - Ensures patient safety related but not limited to,
medications and procedures utilizing the five rights; patient
falls; decubitus prevention and prevention of nosocomial
infections. /t - Ensures optimal pain control and patient comfort;
identifies and discusses patient anxieties, fears or concerns
regarding patient condition, treatment or discharge. /t - Ensures
that patient understands medication purpose, side effects, and
administration instructions in the hospital as well as at the time
of discharge. Documentation: /t - Charting is accurate, legible,
dated, and timed. /t - Documentation reflects nursing process and
interventions and evaluations taken. /t - Utilizes computer systems
effectively and efficiently for optimal patient care. Clinical
Outcomes: /t - Discusses patient findings and progress toward
outcomes with physicians and other members of the health care team.
/t - Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and
ongoing completion by departmental competency validation. /t - Make
comprehensive nursing decisions based on interpretation of data,
assessments, and evaluations of patient outcomes. /t - Participates
in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning,
measuring/monitoring, assessing, and improving. Workplace Safety:
/t - Adherence to LMP Workplace Safety principles and practices. /t
- Applies standard precautions. /t - Maintains a safe environment
for self and others. Patient Care Experience: /t - Practices
customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical
Center, and specified department. /t - Promptly answers call
lights, alarms, and patient requests. /t - Makes appropriate
referrals and facilitates the customers ability to utilize
resources. /t - Maintains and protects patient confidentiality. /t
- Ensures clean, orderly, and functional work environment. /t -
Treats all families of patients with courtesy, respect, kindness
and compassion. /t - Provides an optimal patient care experience by
actively listening to the needs of patients and family members and
taking responsibility for meeting those identified needs. /t -
Gives patients information in a way they can understand and ensures
comprehension. /t - Provides a patient care experience that exceeds
members expectations. Team Commitment: /t - Viewed by others to be
an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing
to assist others. /t - Confronts difficult or conflict situations
constructively and seeks appropriate assistance. /t - Takes
accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
/t - Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees,
registry, students, and other team members. /t - Attends all
mandatory meetings, in-services and staff meetings as required,
actively participates in other departmental professional
development (Requirement may vary for per diem staff). /t -
Participates with the assessment of current and future unit
learning needs and development of an annual education plan. /t -
Keeps self informed of activities on the unit and makes
recommendations for change. /t - Adheres to Attendance Program. /t
- Reports to assigned area promptly, being present and available
for report at beginning of assigned shift. /t - Supports a
collaborative Labor-Management Partnership environment through unit
based teams. Fiscal Responsibility: /t - Organizes work to minimize
the use of overtime. /t - Identifies and assists in systems
improvement that needs simplification or correction. /t - Utilizes
payroll and non-payroll resources to their maximum potential. Basic
Qualifications: Experience - One (1) year recent (within the last 3
years) full-time equivalent experience circulating Cardiac
Surgeries or successful completion of a Kaiser Permanente or
approved equivalent CVOR course within past 12 months. Education -
N/A License, Certification, Registration - Registered Nurse License
(California) - Basic Life Support Additional Requirements: -
Ability to scrub as required. - Ability to take call within a
30-minute response time. Notes: - Standby coverage is required.
PrimaryLocation : California,Los Angeles,Los Angeles Medical Center
HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Day Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu,
Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 12:30 PM WorkingHoursEnd : 09:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status :
Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B08-LAMC|NNU|SCal CNA
LAMC Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Nursing
Licensed & Nurse Practitioners Department : Sunset Medical Center -
Operating Room-4 - 0801 Travel : No Kaiser Permanente is an equal
opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive
workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without
regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability,
veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County,
the employer provides the following statement in accordance with
the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may
have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following
job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the
conditional offer of employment: - Consistently supports compliance
and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of
Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of
information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with
ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to
applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations,
accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and
Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures. - Models and
reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with
the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational
policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains
confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows
consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments. -
Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1)
patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential
protected health information and other confidential KP information
(including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret
information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic
assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances
regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.
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